Lightroom: All my photos are not in my catalog, but they are the hard drive

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my lightroom 3 is showing no photos, folders or collections. I had about 2,000 on there. They are present on the MAC hard drive but with out my hours of edits etc. How can everything disappear? Im so upset I don't know what to do. As over night it all went. Do I go to Adobe for help? is it a problem with my lightroom? Please help me.
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kate kimber

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6 years ago
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Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging

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Sounds like you somehow created a new catalog.

What happens if you hold down the [option] key and start Lightroom. Does it show your catalog with all your changes in the Recent Catalog list?
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hello. thank you for replying. I have just tried that and all it brings up is an empty lightroom? I really can't think that all my photos have disappeared?
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I have some photos on the mac hard drive but with no edits included. when i import these few back in , they have a ? in the corner?
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